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   Ed Vance to Nick Andre   
   Re: NoScript   
   29 Jul 20 22:29:00   
   
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   07-28-20 23:38 Nick Andre wrote to Ed Vance about Re: NoScript   
   Howdy! again Nick,   
      
    NA> @MSGID: <5F2110C7.2165.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net>   
    NA> @REPLY: <5F20DC5A.2164.windowsb@capitolcityonline.net>   
    NA> On 28 Jul 20  22:16:00, Ed Vance said the following to Nick Andre:   
   -snip-   
    EV> I use Mailwasher free and Mozilla Thunderbird for Email.   
    EV> If I see an unwanted Email after I used Mailwasher to see if the Mail   
    EV> Server has any for me I will go to the Web Mail site and delete that   
    EV> message   
      
    NA> [...]   
      
    NA> If it works for you, so be it. I never tell someone how to run their   
    NA> system, only offer advice as a hands on bench-tech for 20+ some odd   
    NA> years... servicing hundreds if not thousands of computers. After   
    NA> awhile, you begin to see some patterns with the service-tickets and   
    NA> begin to politely question the customer.   
      
   My main reason for being a BBS User is to read what other Users write about   
   problems they have, and reading what help Users with more experienced write   
   in their replies about it.   
      
   I'm a bit more knowledgeable about this here computer stuff that I was   
   back in 1984 when I bought a Floppy Drive instead of a Cassette Drive when   
   I got my Commodore 64 pc.   
      
   The day I got the C=64 and 1541 I bought a pack of two 5.25 inch Floppy Disks   
   so I could Save some BASIC Programs I typed in from Popular Electronics or   
   Radio-Electronics magazines.   
      
   I failed every time I try to Format one of the disks, even though I typed   
   the NEW command exactly as it was printed on the page in the 1541 book.   
      
   It may had been over a week before I got one of those Disks Formatted,   
   and that only happened because Commodore included a Utility Disk with the   
   FDD.   
   I knew enought that I could LOAD and LIST the Program Files that were on that   
   Disk and while I was reading the listing for the program to Test the 1541 I   
   noticed it had a line with the NEW Command in it.   
      
   I Ran the Program and followed the instruction to insert a Blank Disk.   
   After the Test finished I learned my floppy disk had been Formatted and   
   I could finally Save what I typed in to a Floppy.   
      
   It was many Months before I figured out that I was suppose to use the   
   OPEN 15,8,15 Command that was at the beginning of the 1541 book before I   
   typed NEW to wake up the FDD so it would Format a Disk for me.   
      
   And of course type CLOSE 15 to tell the 1541 I was done using the NEW Command.   
      
   Speaking of "patterns".   
      
   I met a man at a Electronics Parts Store who told me he worked for a Hotel   
   and serviced the Television Sets there.   
      
   When the Owner needed to buy new TV Sets he would buy the same TV Set model   
   for each Room in the building plus a few more so his technician could   
   replace the Set that needed repairing with one that worked and take the Set   
   that failed to his shop.   
      
   After a period of time the tech saw that the same part would be the cause   
   of the Sets to fail.   
      
   When he went to the Parts Store he would buy enough of that component to be   
   able to fix that faulty TV Set, AND to be able to quickly fix the next bunch   
   of Sets that would need the same repair job.   
      
   That sounds like something You would probably do too.   
      
    NA> At least you do not experiment with overclocking your computer to run   
    NA> some stupid game and later wonder why it randomly crashes?   
      
   I've read about overclocking the CPU.   
      
   The closest to overclocking that I've done is to upgrade the 486DX33 CPU on   
   the Motherboard with a 486DX2-66 CPU the Tech who built the computer for me   
   gave to me after he upgraded his own computer to a Pentium CPU.   
      
    NA>  * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)   
      
   It was about 1961 when I went to a Movie Theater to watch a Gladiator Movie.   
   It was the first Gladiator movie I ever paid to watch.   
      
   I can't remember if I stayed to watch the entire show, but I never paid to   
   watch another Gladiator Movie.   
      
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